Episodes
Series | Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
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01 | 01 | The Builder | 19990621 | Five different indexes, as seen by Chris Bigsby. 1: `The Builder'. Ruth Richardson and Richard Thorne reveal the secrets contained in the pages of a Victorian architectural journal. | |
01 | 02 | The Herbarium | 19990622 | Five different indexes, as seen by Chris Bigsby. 2: `The Herbarium'. A visit to an organic index to the natural world - a collection of millions of pressed plants. | |
01 | 03 | The Great War | 19990623 | 19991114 | Five different indexes, as seen by Chris Bigsby. 3: `The Great War'. Christopher Bigsby rummages through some three million records of men who enlisted in the First World War, and finds his ancestors went AWOL. Five different indexes, as seen by Chris Bigsby. 3: `The Great War'. Christopher Bigsby rummages through some three million records of men who enlisted in the First World War, and finds his ancestors went AWOL. |
01 | 04 | The Index Index | 19990624 | Five different indexes, as seen by Chris Bigsby. 4: `The Index Index'. Christopher Bigsby visits the offices of the Index on Censorship where he meets Chinese dissident poet Yang Lian Five different indexes, as seen by Chris Bigsby. 4: `The Index Index'. Christopher Bigsby visits the offices of the Index on Censorship where he meets Chinese dissident poet Yang Lian | |
01 | 05 | The Biography | 19990625 | Five different indexes, as seen by Chris Bigsby. 5: `The Biography'. Christopher Bigsby meets biographer Richard Holmes and his indexer Douglas Matthews at the home of the creator of fake indexes, Malcolm Bradbury. |